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Sep 25
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Wheels for Workers 716 Donates Bikes for Refugee Families

By Donations, News
Local non-profit Wheels for Workers 716 stopped by our location on Delaware Avenue to generously donate 13 bicycles, helmets, and locks. They’ll now be given to our newly arrived refugee clients to help them get to and from work, school, grocery shopping, and other essential destinations. Wheels for Workers 716 assists re-settled families to integrate into our community here in…
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Sep 22
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Oscar de la Renta

By Education, News
Oscar de la Renta: Photo courtesy of Vouge, Indigital “Work hard, believe in yourself."   –Oscar de la Renta In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize the scientific, economic, cultural, political, and social contributions of influential immigrants and refugees who've helped shape the vibrant tapestry of America. Today, we recognize Dominican-American designer, Oscar de la Renta. Oscar de la…
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Sep 20
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Editing and Proofreading for Translators: IIB Virtual Workshop

By Education, I/T Service Update
Join Ryan Green, Translation Coordinator for the International Institute of Buffalo's Interpreting & Translation Department for a two-hour course on Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 at 5:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time (USA/Canada) that will cover editing and proofreading translated documents. Open to document translators of all levels, this course is meant to improve your document translation skills via understanding better how…
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Sep 19
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Urgent Help Needed: Two-Alarm Fire Forces Family Out of Home

By Donations, News
One of our newly arrived refugee client families need extra support after a two-alarm fire forced them to evacuate their home this past weekend. After an arduous journey that brought them to Western New York, community support will help them through this recent setback. The following items are urgently needed to help this family back on their feet: One Stroller Cookware:…
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Sep 18
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Meet Thom Tran from Vietnam

By In the Community, News
Thom Tran In July 1980, Thom Tran and his family came to the United States as refugees from Vietnam when he was an infant. His father was a South Vietnamese Air Force pilot who escaped a POW camp. After Saigon fell, the Tran family made it to a refugee camp in Thailand. Soon after that, St. Aloysius Gonzaga Church in…
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Sep 15
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Meet Anita Butera from Italy

By In the Community, News
  Anita Butera says she came to America by accident. In the 1990s, as a university student in Italy, she planned to travel to England to improve her English skills. An unexpected visit from an aunt wanting to visit the town where her parents were born changed that. She offered Butera a place to stay so she could immerse herself…
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Sep 15
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Franklin Chang-Díaz

By Education, News
Photo Credit: NASA “I don't think anyone in my family really believed that this was a possibility for me, and I really wasn't expecting anybody to believe in my dream. The chances of becoming an astronaut were very low. But it was never impossible.“   –Franklin Chang-Diaz In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize the scientific, economic, cultural, political,…
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Sep 14
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Meet Nadin Yousef from Iraq

By In the Community, News
Nadin Yousef and her family endured life in Bagdad, Iraq, under American occupation. After the United States pulled out of her country, a civil war ensued, and it became too dangerous. “Civil war is bad; you don’t know who the enemy is or who will knock on your door in the middle of the night,” said Yousef. Yousef took her…
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Sep 14
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IIB Welcomes 31 New Americans from 15 Countries!

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  We welcomed 31 New Americans from 15 countries this week. They took their citizenship oaths at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony, held at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site in downtown Buffalo on Wednesday, September 13. The countries from which these new American citizens traveled are: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burma, Canada, Hungary, India, Iraq, Italy,…
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Sep 13
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Meet Rubens Mukunzi from Rwanda

By In the Community, News
When Rubens Mukunzi was a journalist in his home country of Rwanda, all was fine until officials wanted him to publish more favorable stories about the government in his newspaper, Oasis Gazette. They ignored his protests that it was not a journalist's job to publish only good things about a government at its insistence. He reminded them that his publication…
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